The teaching which
is given in this Treatise on Cosmic Fire might be formulated in the following terms. These
postulates are simply extensions of the three fundamentals to be found in the Proem in the
first volume of the Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky (S.D., I, 42-44). Students
are recommended to study them carefully; in this way their understanding of the Treatise
will be greatly aided.

I. There is one Boundless Immutable Principle; one Absolute Reality which antecedes
all manifested conditioned Being. It is beyond the range and reach of any human thought or
expression.

The manifested Universe is contained within this Absolute Reality and is a conditioned
symbol of it. In the totality of this manifested Universe, three aspects are to be
conceived.

The First Cosmic Logos, impersonal and unmanifested, the precursor of the Manifested.

The Second Cosmic Logos, Spirit-Matter, Life, the Spirit of the Universe.

The Third Cosmic Logos, Cosmic Ideation, the Universal World-Soul.

From these basic creative principles, in successive gradations there issue in ordered
sequence the numberless Universes comprising countless Manifesting Stars and Solar
Systems.

Each Solar System is the manifestation of the energy and life of a great Cosmic
Existence, Whom we call, for lack of a better term, a Solar Logos. [4]

This Solar Logos incarnates, or comes into manifestation, through the medium of a solar
system.

This solar system is the body, or form, of this cosmic Life, and is itself triple.

This triple solar system can be described in terms of three aspects, or (as the
Christian theology puts it) in terms of three Persons.

ELECTRIC FIRE, or SPIRIT

1st Person - Father, Life, Will, Purpose, Positive energy.

SOLAR FIRE, or SOUL

2nd Person - Son, Consciousness, Love-Wisdom, Equilibrized energy.

FIRE BY FRICTION (Body or Matter)

3rd
Person - Holy Spirit, Form, Active Intelligence, Negative energy.

Each of
these three is also triple in manifestation, making therefore

The nine Potencies or Emanations.

The nine Sephiroth.

The nine Causes of Initiation.

These, with the totality of manifestation or the Whole, produce the ten (10) of perfect
manifestation, or the perfect MAN.

These three aspects of the Whole are present in every form.

The solar system is triple, manifesting through the three above mentioned.

A human being is equally triple, manifesting as Spirit, Soul and Body, or Monad, Ego and
Personality.

The atom of the scientist is also triple, being composed of a positive nucleus, the
negative electrons, and the totality of the outer [5] manifestation, the result of the
relation of the other two.

The three aspects of every form are interrelated and susceptible of intercourse,
because

Energy is in motion and circulates.

All forms in the solar system form part of the Whole, and are not isolated units.

This is the basis of brotherhood, of the communion of saints, and of astrology.

These three aspects of God, the solar Logos, and the Central Energy or Force (for the
terms are occultly synonymous) demonstrate through seven centers of force, - three major
centers and four minor. These seven centers of logoic Force are themselves so constituted
that they form corporate Entities. They are known as

The seven planetary Logoi.

The seven Spirits before the Throne.

The seven Rays.

The seven Heavenly Men.

The Seven Logoi embody seven types of differentiated force, and in this Treatise are
known under the names of Lords of the Rays. The names of the Rays are